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Aquatic Plant Bubbling or Rotting?

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#1 ·
I have one plant in my tank with is bubbling like mad. It is letting off roughly 60-80 bubble per minute. Is this normal, or is it rotting?

Watch the video here
 
#3 ·
It's well-known that Carbon is usually the element that's most lacking in aquariums..

When you do a waterchange (or add carbon dioxide, or use soil substrates), you add carbon dioxide. The plants have a huge burst to photosynthesis, absorb the dissolved CO2, and release O2 gas (oxygen. Remember this from school? ;)). The bubbles you see coming from leaves are O2.

If it's coming from the substrate (I can't see the movie), then it could be rotting. Could be CO2. No real way to know...
 
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